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Indicator : Published patent applications in EPO (Patent)

Description : The indicator shows the number of patents applications published (but not yet granted) in EPO. According to WIPO, a patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a product or a process that provides, in general, a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem. To get a patent, technical information about the invention must be disclosed to the public in a patent application.

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 Data  Rank  Share

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Published patent applications in EPO (Patent)

		2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020 [Mar]
	World	141,529	148,804 5.14	150,948 1.441	82,238 -45.519	88,648 7.794	23,442 -73.556	
1	Japan	21,564 3 15.24	20,823 3 13.99 -3.436 43	21,191 3 14.04 1.767 44	20,619 1 25.07 -2.699 9	21,569 1 24.33 4.607 43	5,611 1 23.94 -73.986 33	
2	USA	37,205 1 26.29	42,716 1 28.71 14.813 15	41,274 1 27.34 -3.376 51	12,869 2 15.65 -68.821 54	14,709 2 16.59 14.298 31	3,816 2 16.28 -74.057 35	
3	Germany	22,857 2 16.15	22,442 2 15.08 -1.816 38	22,132 2 14.66 -1.381 49	11,146 3 13.55 -49.639 28	12,096 3 13.64 8.523 38	3,196 3 13.63 -73.578 31	
4	China	5,536 7 3.91	6,302 6 4.24 13.837 16	8,521 5 5.64 35.211 15	7,396 4 8.99 -13.203 13	9,549 4 10.77 29.11 20	2,960 4 12.63 -69.002 15	
5	South Korea	6,206 5 4.38	6,854 5 4.61 10.442 18	6,566 6 4.35 -4.202 52	6,198 5 7.54 -5.605 10	6,595 5 7.44 6.405 40	1,763 5 7.52 -73.268 28	
6	France	9,950 4 7.03	10,107 4 6.79 1.578 36	10,121 4 6.7 0.139 48	3,724 6 4.53 -63.205 48	3,923 6 4.43 5.344 42	905 6 3.86 -76.931 48	
7	Switzerland	5,680 6 4.01	5,875 7 3.95 3.433 32	6,023 7 3.99 2.519 41	2,706 7 3.29 -55.072 38	2,865 7 3.23 5.876 41	806 7 3.44 -71.867 24	
8	Netherlands	4,295 9 3.03	4,609 9 3.1 7.311 23	4,785 9 3.17 3.819 37	1,522 9 1.85 -68.192 53	2,140 8 2.41 40.604 14	556 8 2.37 -74.019 34	
9	UK	4,627 8 3.27	5,085 8 3.42 9.898 19	4,993 8 3.31 -1.809 50	1,459 10 1.77 -70.779 55	1,799 10 2.03 23.304 23	513 9 2.19 -71.484 22	
10	Italy	3,643 11 2.57	3,978 10 2.67 9.196 20	4,158 10 2.75 4.525 35	1,891 8 2.3 -54.521 35	1,921 9 2.17 1.586 45	457 10 1.95 -76.21 45	
11	Taiwan	1,175 18 0.83	1,377 17 0.93 17.191 12	1,525 16 1.01 10.748 26	1,348 11 1.64 -11.607 12	1,517 11 1.71 12.537 32	364 11 1.55 -76.005 43	
12	Sweden	3,908 10 2.76	3,373 11 2.27 -13.69 52	3,548 11 2.35 5.188 32	1,016 13 1.24 -71.364 56	1,180 13 1.33 16.142 28	326 12 1.39 -72.373 25	
13	Spain	1,380 17 0.98	1,322 18 0.89 -4.203 44	1,372 18 0.91 3.782 38	1,104 12 1.34 -19.534 15	1,181 12 1.33 6.975 39	312 13 1.33 -73.582 32	
14	Austria	1,823 13 1.29	1,894 13 1.27 3.895 31	1,980 12 1.31 4.541 34	928 14 1.13 -53.131 33	1,102 14 1.24 18.75 26	266 14 1.13 -75.862 42	
15	Belgium	1,530 15 1.08	1,631 15 1.1 6.601 26	1,702 13 1.13 4.353 36	838 15 1.02 -50.764 31	870 15 0.98 3.819 44	223 15 0.95 -74.368 36	
16	Denmark	1,384 16 0.98	1,429 16 0.96 3.251 34	1,500 17 0.99 4.969 33	579 17 0.7 -61.4 44	669 17 0.75 15.544 29	190 16 0.81 -71.599 23	
17	Finland	2,016 12 1.42	1,923 12 1.29 -4.613 45	1,632 14 1.08 -15.133 58	700 16 0.85 -57.108 40	774 16 0.87 10.571 36	181 17 0.77 -76.615 47	
18	Canada	1,666 14 1.18	1,742 14 1.17 4.562 30	1,550 15 1.03 -11.022 55	439 18 0.53 -71.677 57	577 18 0.65 31.435 19	155 18 0.66 -73.137 27	
19	Ireland	468 22 0.33	508 21 0.34 8.547 21	516 22 0.34 1.575 45	232 21 0.28 -55.039 37	307 20 0.35 32.328 17	97 19 0.41 -68.404 13	
20	India	533 20 0.38	655 20 0.44 22.889 11	706 20 0.47 7.786 30	288 19 0.35 -59.207 43	281 21 0.32 -2.431 46	69 20 0.29 -75.445 40	
21	Poland	390 25 0.28	455 23 0.31 16.667 13	460 25 0.3 1.099 46	197 22 0.24 -57.174 41	265 22 0.3 34.518 15	64 21 0.27 -75.849 41	
22	Singapore	397 24 0.28	439 24 0.3 10.579 17	443 26 0.29 0.911 47	158 26 0.19 -64.334 50	181 25 0.2 14.557 30	49 22 0.21 -72.928 26	
23	Liechtenstein	333 27 0.24	322 27 0.22 -3.303 42	392 27 0.26 21.739 21	162 25 0.2 -58.673 42	213 23 0.24 31.481 18	49 22 0.21 -76.995 49	
24	Russia	241 28 0.17	200 29 0.13 -17.012 53	221 30 0.15 10.5 27	182 23 0.22 -17.647 14	202 24 0.23 10.989 35	45 24 0.19 -77.723 51	
25	Turkey	415 23 0.29	438 25 0.29 5.542 29	525 21 0.35 19.863 22	273 20 0.33 -48 26	450 19 0.51 64.835 11	44 25 0.19 -90.222 60	
26	Australia	796 19 0.56	817 19 0.55 2.638 35	838 19 0.56 2.57 40	115 28 0.14 -86.277 68	135 29 0.15 17.391 27	39 26 0.17 -71.111 19	
27	Luxembourg	373 26 0.26	398 26 0.27 6.702 24	513 23 0.34 28.894 16	177 24 0.22 -65.497 51	136 28 0.15 -23.164 56	36 27 0.15 -73.529 30	
28	Norway	520 21 0.37	481 22 0.32 -7.5 49	495 24 0.33 2.911 39	136 27 0.17 -72.525 58	151 26 0.17 11.029 34	36 27 0.15 -76.159 44	
29	Portugal	122 33 0.09	158 33 0.11 29.508 9	144 33 0.1 -8.861 54	86 31 0.1 -40.278 18	108 30 0.12 25.581 22	34 29 0.15 -68.519 14	
30	Brazil	202 29 0.14	183 32 0.12 -9.406 51	234 28 0.16 27.869 18	109 29 0.13 -53.419 34	140 27 0.16 28.44 21	32 30 0.14 -77.143 50	
31	Czech Republic	198 30 0.14	193 31 0.13 -2.525 39	216 31 0.14 11.917 25	98 30 0.12 -54.63 36	108 30 0.12 10.204 37	32 30 0.14 -70.37 17	
32	New Zealand	196 31 0.14	196 30 0.13 0	222 29 0.15 13.265 24	46 33 0.06 -79.279 64	36 36 0.04 -21.739 55	19 32 0.08 -47.222 3	
33	Slovenia	114 34 0.08	123 34 0.08 7.895 22	98 36 0.06 -20.325 61	58 32 0.07 -40.816 19	50 32 0.06 -13.793 52	16 33 0.07 -68 11	
34	Mexico	61 39 0.04	63 38 0.04 3.279 33	68 38 0.05 7.937 29	36 36 0.04 -47.059 25	44 35 0.05 22.222 25	14 34 0.06 -68.182 12	
35	Greece	81 37 0.06	80 37 0.05 -1.235 37	82 37 0.05 2.5 42	42 34 0.05 -48.78 27	47 34 0.05 11.905 33	11 35 0.05 -76.596 46	
36	Saudi Arabia	185 32 0.13	261 28 0.18 41.081 8	173 32 0.11 -33.716 63	18 42 0.02 -89.595 69	33 38 0.04 83.333 7	10 36 0.04 -69.697 16	
37	Romania	33 45 0.02	32 47 0.02 -3.03 41	18 53 0.01 -43.75 66	10 47 0.01 -44.444 23	22 41 0.02 120 6	8 37 0.03 -63.636 7	
38	Hungary	94 36 0.07	100 35 0.07 6.383 28	102 35 0.07 2 43	26 38 0.03 -74.51 60	32 39 0.04 23.077 24	6 38 0.03 -81.25 55	
39	Argentina	18 53 0.01	23 49 0.02 27.778 10	22 50 0.01 -4.348 53	15 43 0.02 -31.818 16	11 47 0.01 -26.667 57	5 39 0.02 -54.545 5	
40	Bulgaria	30 47 0.02	32 47 0.02 6.667 25	26 48 0.02 -18.75 60	10 47 0.01 -61.538 45	17 43 0.02 70 8	5 39 0.02 -70.588 18	
41	Thailand	20 51 0.01	23 49 0.02 15 14	66 39 0.04 186.957 3	37 35 0.04 -43.939 22	36 36 0.04 -2.703 47	5 39 0.02 -86.111 58	
42	South Africa	105 35 0.07	96 36 0.06 -8.571 50	130 34 0.09 35.417 14	10 47 0.01 -92.308 70	15 45 0.02 50 12	4 42 0.02 -73.333 29	
43	Cyprus	42 41 0.03	39 42 0.03 -7.143 48	50 40 0.03 28.205 17	22 40 0.03 -56 39	21 42 0.02 -4.545 48	4 42 0.02 -80.952 54	
44	Chile	29 48 0.02	42 41 0.03 44.828 7	36 45 0.02 -14.286 57	32 37 0.04 -11.111 11	48 33 0.05 50 12	4 42 0.02 -91.667 61	
45	Lithuania	31 46 0.02	33 45 0.02 6.452 27	28 47 0.02 -15.152 59	10 47 0.01 -64.286 49	9 49 0.01 -10 50	3 45 0.01 -66.667 8	
46	Slovakia	38 43 0.03	36 44 0.02 -5.263 47	46 41 0.03 27.778 19	25 39 0.03 -45.652 24	23 40 0.03 -8 49	3 45 0.01 -86.957 59	
47	Estonia	34 44 0.02	33 45 0.02 -2.941 40	35 46 0.02 6.061 31	21 41 0.03 -40 17	17 43 0.02 -19.048 54	3 45 0.01 -82.353 57	
48	Iceland	41 42 0.03	39 42 0.03 -4.878 46	43 42 0.03 10.256 28	3 57 0 -93.023 71	8 51 0.01 166.667 4	3 45 0.01 -62.5 6	
49	Colombia	19 52 0.01	13 52 0.01 -31.579 60	21 51 0.01 61.538 10	12 46 0.01 -42.857 20	12 46 0.01 0	3 45 0.01 -75 37	
50	Latvia	61 39 0.04	15 51 0.01 -75.41 71	21 51 0.01 40 12	10 47 0.01 -52.381 32	9 49 0.01 -10 50	3 45 0.01 -66.667 8	
51	Belarus	4 66 0	3 66 0 -25 55	3 65 0 0	6 54 0.01 100 2	2 64 0 -66.667 62	2 51 0.01 0	
52	Ukraine	18 53 0.01	11 54 0.01 -38.889 62	23 49 0.02 109.091 5	13 45 0.02 -43.478 21	11 47 0.01 -15.385 53	2 51 0.01 -81.818 56	
53	UAE	29 48 0.02	62 39 0.04 113.793 2	39 44 0.03 -37.097 64	15 43 0.02 -61.538 45	8 51 0.01 -46.667 60	2 51 0.01 -75 37	
54	Kuwait	3 72 0	3 66 0 0	5 59 0 66.667 8	0	1 70 0	2 51 0.01 100 1	
55	Malaysia	65 38 0.05	47 40 0.03 -27.692 58	41 43 0.03 -12.766 56	7 53 0.01 -82.927 66	7 53 0.01 0	2 51 0.01 -71.429 20	
56	Serbia	9 57 0.01	3 66 0 -66.667 67	5 59 0 66.667 8	1 66 0 -80 65	3 59 0 200 2	2 51 0.01 -33.333 2	
57	Cuba	9 57 0.01	6 58 0 -33.333 61	2 69 0 -66.667 69	3 57 0 50 3	7 53 0.01 133.333 5	2 51 0.01 -71.429 20	
58	Uzbekistan	1 80 0	2 72 0 100 3	0	0	3 59 0	1 58 0 -66.667 8	
59	Croatia	12 56 0.01	12 53 0.01 0	14 54 0.01 16.667 23	3 57 0 -78.571 63	2 64 0 -33.333 58	1 58 0 -50 4	
60	Angola			2 69 0	3 57 0 50 3	5 55 0.01 66.667 9	1 58 0 -80 52	
61	Lebanon	4 66 0	3 66 0 -25 55	8 56 0.01 166.667 4	3 57 0 -62.5 47	5 55 0.01 66.667 9	1 58 0 -80 52	
62	Pakistan	3 72 0	0	1 78 0	1 66 0 0	4 57 0 300 1	1 58 0 -75 37	
63	Azerbaijan	0	2 72 0	3 65 0 50 11	0	1 70 0	1 58 0 0	
64	Bahrain	2 77 0	2 72 0 0	2 69 0 0	3 57 0 50 3	0	1 58 0	
65	Vietnam	4 66 0	1 78 0 -75 69	3 65 0 200 2	0	3 59 0	0	
66	Morocco	4 66 0	2 72 0 -50 63	4 62 0 100 6	1 66 0 -75 61	1 70 0 0	0	
67	North Korea	1 80 0	0	1 78 0	0	0	0	
68	Iran	3 72 0	6 58 0 100 3	3 65 0 -50 67	1 66 0 -66.667 52	1 70 0 0	0	
69	Bosnia	1 80 0	0	0	1 66 0	0	0	
70	Jamaica	0	1 78 0	1 78 0 0	0	1 70 0	0	
71	Costa rica	4 66 0	1 78 0 -75 69	4 62 0 300 1	0	3 59 0	0	
72	Armenia	2 77 0	2 72 0 0	0	0	1 70 0	0	
73	Jordan	3 72 0	6 58 0 100 3	2 69 0 -66.667 69	1 66 0 -50 29	0	0	
74	Kazakhstan	8 62 0.01	4 64 0 -50 63	5 59 0 25 20	6 54 0.01 20 8	2 64 0 -66.667 62	0	
75	Algeria	5 65 0	0	0	0	0	0	
76	Nigeria	0	0	0	0	1 70 0	0	
77	Venezuela	0	3 66 0	0	0	0	0	
78	Oman	1 80 0	2 72 0 100 3	2 69 0 0	0	1 70 0	0	
79	Georgia	3 72 0	0	2 69 0	0	0	0	
80	Panama	6 64 0	6 58 0 0	6 58 0 0	1 66 0 -83.333 67	3 59 0 200 2	0	
81	Bangladesh	9 57 0.01	0	0	0	0	0	
82	Philippines	21 50 0.01	7 56 0 -66.667 67	4 62 0 -42.857 65	1 66 0 -75 61	0	0	
83	Qatar	17 55 0.01	8 55 0.01 -52.941 65	11 55 0.01 37.5 13	3 57 0 -72.727 59	4 57 0 33.333 16	0	
84	Egypt	7 63 0	5 62 0 -28.571 59	1 78 0 -80 72	6 54 0.01 500 1	2 64 0 -66.667 62	0	
85	Indonesia	9 57 0.01	7 56 0 -22.222 54	2 69 0 -71.429 71	1 66 0 -50 29	0	0	
86	Syria	2 77 0	0	1 78 0	0	0	0	
87	Tunisia	4 66 0	3 66 0 -25 55	2 69 0 -33.333 62	2 65 0 0	1 70 0 -50 61	0	
88	Uruguay	9 57 0.01	4 64 0 -55.556 66	8 56 0.01 100 6	10 47 0.01 25 7	2 64 0 -80 65	0	
89	Peru	1 80 0	5 62 0 400 1	2 69 0 -60 68	3 57 0 50 3	2 64 0 -33.333 58	0	
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